Game Industry Experts Discuss Xbox 2

Alan Wong writes "Taken from the latest issue of Xbox Nation magazine, 1UP.com has posted a feature entitled Doing The Right Thing, where eleven industry insiders discussed what it would take for Microsoft to make the next Xbox a success. Among the panel members were Nolan Bushnell, Trip Hawkins, Steven Kent, Bioware's Greg Zeschuk."

Comments

Re:I'm not experienced with the industry...

[Jarlsberg]

Come on, you got to try harder than that ;)

Trip Hawkins tried to compete in the market with 3D0. No sucess, but I'm sure it taught him something about the console biz.
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100496

Steven Kent. Writer - here's his book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970475500/ qid%3D1015862334/sr%3D1-5/gamingageonli-20/002-162 5945-0001657

Greg Zeschuk. Bioware -- ring a bell? Bioware did the enormously successfull Neverwinter nights game. It's even got a Linux client, for heaven's sake.
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html

Bioware has Xbox experience, too

[radicalskeptic]

Don't forget, while Bioware's Neverwinter Nights was not released for the Xbox, they also produced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, probably still the best RPG released for Microsoft's console. They're also working on Jade Empire , which will be an Xbox exclusive, and was specifically designed from the start for the Xbox.

Trip Hawkins started EA!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Trip Hawkins started Electronic Arts..

I mean, the 3DO is an amusing (actually kind of depressing) misadventure of his, but by that time he'd already had way more than his fair share of success.

And not knowing who Nolan Bushnell is is just unconscionable...

Re:what it would take for Microsoft to make the ne

[phaze3000]

Imagine my happy surprise when I walked in the room and saw 4 Xboxes connected via System Link and projected onto big screens. We played for 2 or 3 hours every night, and people who weren't even videogame fans got into the action.

I really don't think people would have/could have done this with the other consoles.

Actually, this could have been done with a Gamecube and network adapters. Mario Kart DD multiplayer is a hell of a lot of fun.

I have all three consoles. For me what makes the XBox different is the type of titles you get on it - it naturally attracts a lot of PC developers. I doubt we'd see anything too much like Fable on the other two consoles.